Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-04-16
NEWS NOTES.

At a reception held by the president re-
Gently, among other callers was Siugger
Sullivan and his troup of athletes.
Senator Mitchell, Of Oregon, to-day pre-
scented to the interstate commerce commits
sion a memorial adopted by a convention
recently h6lI at Walla Walla, Washington
Territory, composed Of delegates from Vari-
Gus boards of trade in eastern Oregon aud
Washington Territory, setting forth the IN
reasonable nature or freight charges on
railroads IN that county and praying for
action Of the comm ssiOn IN ordering a re-
ducdon Of rates. Mr.. Mitchell endorsed the
memorial and accompanied it with an ar
gum6nt in support OF the action prayed for.
A resident of Chihuahua, Mexico, re-
Gently complained TO the treasury depart
ment OF damage to his effects caused by the
action Of the custom officers at FL Paso,
Tex, In opening and examining packages
containing the same on his arrival there In
July last eurout6 for Europe ia New York.
In acting on the case Secretary Fairchild:
without going into PARTON ars the depart
unent has 70 say that the government ID not
responsible for any loss or injury occurring
to imported merchandise including the
baggage OF passengers which has been
caused b. lr1 roper lc1Gr"t on tie part OF
customs OEQcstss and besides, even II II were
responsible, there IL no appropriation from
which any claim for such loss OF damage
can be paid 1t Is suggested that If the Gus
toms officers at El PasO did not use Ordina-
~ care and diligence IN the eLamln alton OF
your effects at the time you mention, they are
personally responsible TO you for damage
Aaron Hood fell dead from heart disease
at Shelby vile, Ill, Sunday night, in pres
ence Of his family.
Only a brief item in an obscure Welsh
paper the other day chrOnicled the death of
q man whose name has been a household
word IN millions of families and wherever
the English or a-y other language is Lpokon.
This IL O. j. Dyson Perrlns, ths junior
member of the firm OF Lea & Perrins, man
ufaoturers Of the celebrated Worcestershire
sauce that bears that name. He died sud
denly, at the age of G., at his country seat at
Great Malvern, leaving fortune of several
million pounds sterling as a result of the
universal consumption of the famous sauce.
Forty years ago he was a DOlr young mau,
and the formula of the decOctiOu upOn
which his fortune was built was obtained
from the discovery OF an army man who
sold il for few score of pounds.
The Belgian chamber of deputies has
passed bill to permit the Congo Free State
to issue a lottery loan of l5O,OOO.OOJ francs.
The steamer Spokane, with twenty-f5ur
passengers on board, eapsizsd IN the Occur
d. leHe river, Idaho Territory and i've pas
sengers were drowned.
An order was entered in the common pleas
court at Cleveland for the sale of the Nickel
Plate road for not less than $1,000 600.
Thirty days notice will be given.
A dispatch from New Orleans reports two
recent attempts to cut lsVees along the Mis-
sissippI, probably for the purpose Of getting
water TO hOat logs to mill. The guards have
been doubled, and armed with Winchester
rides.
The ONCE of minister from Austria to the
United States has been vacant for two years.
But credentials have been presented to
President Cleveland by the Chsvalier Schmit
Won Tavera. He had previously served i've
years as a member of the legation.
Incendiary fire in the town of Kuty, Aus
trian Gallacia, has rendered 1000 people
homeless.
Commissioner Chas. Green, U. S. N. re-
tired, died suddenly at Province, aged 7a
years.
The president has appointed Benton J.
Hall, Of Iowa, commiss iOuer of patents,
vice III. V. Montgomery resigned.
TIE Ontario and West road has formally
withdrawn from the emlgrant pool, and can
oOuAecuOH With the Cad --l.uk al SGE
pension Bridge.
A six-foot dri'tw8y ia b5ing rapidly con
structsd undsr the St. Clair river, near Port
Huron, by General SoOy Smith. Men are
working from shafts on either side.
AS the tenants on the Irish estates Of Lord
tlAusdOwue refuse to compromise, the CIVIC
ton Of al in arrears will DO commenced on
April 20.
Abraham Bowser, a printer employed on
the Hagerston, Nd, Globe, Was caught IN
the act Of rhing the money drawer Of HE
employer, who RUS a general store IN the
front part OF his printing office. Ov6Ec 2ne
with shame and dread of the consequences
Of his act, BOWser drew a revolver and blew
his brains out. He leaves a wife and three
small children.
The interstate commerce commission,
after listening to the appeals of various
southern railways, has suspended IN that sec
ton, for a period OF ninety days, the opera
ton of the long and short haul section of
the law.
Arthur Terry has been brought back from
ksW Orleans to Aurora, Illinois, to answer
the charge of poisoning his wife. The corO-
ner'a jury returned a verdict recommending
that he be held for the crime, and he was
placed in jail at Geneva.
J. O. Arnold, marshal of Dallas. Texas,
started from Chicago with a prisoner named
Peet, but treated HIM so brutally on an Al
ton train that they we're out OF at Brighton
Park. Arnold hurried his man out Of reach
OF a writ Of habeas corpus which had been
sHued.
Nicholas Cardenas, we'll known citizen
OF Havana, paid to his kidnapp5rs, near
Mariana, $50 for release.
Colonel ID. w. Aiken, who represented a
South Carolina district IN congress for five
terms, died at his nome in COkesbury. he
took high rank as scientific farmer.
Joliet barb wire manufacturers have
agreed to pool, close down number of the
plants and raise the price upon wire.
A cablegrsm from London says that Ex-
Secretary Manning is better and has been
able to take a snort walk.
The bill In the Pennsylvania senate peud-
ing for the execution Of the death sentence
by means Of electricity was lost on third
rendinR.
Ssaunton, Va, local optioni=ts will con-
testthe election on grounds that the tickets
of .'wets', were printed upon cream colored
instead of white paper.